You need to back off on the indefinite blocks a bit. The ArbCom can ban for a maximum of a year. You have had good luck so far (and might succeed with Silverback) but simply relying on the fact that someone is so disliked that no other administrator will unblock them is very shaky ground. I think you are on the verge of putting yourself into avoidable trouble. Fred On Oct 16, 2005, at 7:52 PM, Mattwolf Binder wrote:

On 10/16/05, Mattwolf Binder <matt_binder(a)hotmail.com> wrote: I don't think that Silverback's conduct yet reaches the level at which we should be talking about a life ban. I haven't looked at the full history yet, but I doubt that the ArbCom would ban him for a year (the longest time ArbCom is permitted to ban a user) based on what I have seen; a shorter ban of perhaps a week, a personal attack parole, and perhaps some other remedies are more likely to be imposed. Perhaps we should just skip the circus and ban him straightaway, but I think doing so circumvents a process that we hope, perhaps naively, will remediate the conduct of problem users without requiring a permanent ban. If you want to keep this off ArbCom's docket, try actually talk to him to find out what his grouse is, and then address whatever that might be. This might be futile, but I would think that you, as acting chair of MedCom, would be more willing to talk an issue through than lay down the hard and heavy on the guy. Kelly